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Country Cuba REPORT NO. CSC1-316/00699-64

SUMECT Julian NOVAS Fernandes | DATE o1stR, 27 August 1964

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED [INFORMATION SOUSCE ORADINGS ARE OEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 1S TENTATIVE

source: A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence
Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Comments

The following report is one of a series containing personality
information provided by the source and includes supplemental
iuformation from the records of this Agency.

It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of
the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without
first checking with this Agency .

Source was shown a& photograph of Julian NOVAS Fernandez
and source identified him as a Cuban fMntelligence Officer.
Source saw NOVAS at the Cuban Embassy~in Mexico city ip
March 1964 and assumed he was a functionary there. 4» “» 3, 4, 5,

Headquarters Comments

1. Although source saw Julian NOVAS Fernandez at the Cuban
Embassy in Mexico City in March 1964, the records of this
Agenvy reveal that source was probably in error in
assuming that NOVAS was assigned to that Embassy and
it is more likely that he was just passing through.

The following traces by this Agency is the basis for
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2. Anfjofficial Woateaireatredy in a report dated 24 March 1964,
stat@d that Julian NOVAS Férnandez sorrived in Kingston,
Jamaica, on 18 March 1964, to take up his duties at the
Cuban Consulate in Kingston as Commercial Attache. ,Source
said that NOVAS has the appearance of an American and
speaks excellent English. Since his arrival he. has been

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his wife did not accompany him and source speculated that her
arrival may be delayed in view of NOVAS" present inclination for

feminine diversion.

In a report dated March 1964, this same source said that

Julian NOVAS Fernandez, the Cuban Commercial Attache at the

Cuban Consulate in Kingston, Jamaica, was born on 2 September 1938,

m Habana, Cuba. He carried diplomatic passport D/64/90 which
aS issued in Habana on 20 February 1964.- His home address was
given as Carman No. 18, Vibora. He arrived in Kingston from
Mexico on 18 March 1964, on Mexicana Flight Number 305.

This same source, ‘in a report dated 28 April 1964, stated that
..the wife of Julian:NOVAS Fernandez, the recently arrived Cuban

Commercial Attache, arrived in Kingston on 22 April 1964,
via Mexico. Her name is Amarilis Marta VALDES Hijuelos and
she was born on 19 May 1937, in Jiquani, Oriente, Cuba. VALDES
has been indisposed since her arrival in Kingston; this is
probably due to her advanced pregnancy. Her home address if
Cuba is Avenida 31, Number 3622, Habana. She carried diplomatic
passport D,64/239, issued in Habana on 9 April 1964.

This same source, ina report dated 9 May 1964, noted that
the salary and allowances of the new Cuban Commercial Attache,

“Julian NOVAS Fernandez, suggests that he is the new Cuban

Intelligence Service chief in Jamaica, succeeding Gerardo
SANCHEZ Robert.

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